Litigation Paralegal

About the Team: Our Global Litigation Team provides key support for TikTok and the family of related products. We empower innovation by delivering integrated legal guidance that supports our business teams in achieving their boldest ambitions. The Global Litigation team is responsible for managing high-stakes litigation and disputes across all regions. We are seeking an exceptional litigation paralegal to serve on the North America Litigation team, a high-performing team responsible for some of the most complex and high-profile disputes facing the company. This role offers the opportunity to shape and drive the companies global litigation strategy, partnering closely with cross-functional partners to navigate legal and reputational risks in a dynamic and fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities:

• Support TikToks Global Litigation team to manage litigation, pre-litigation disputes, investigations, and regulatory matters from intake through resolution. This position will oversee the patent docket, in addition to providing support to employment matters
• Drive case management support, including intake, tracking, file management, and calendaring
• Support fact investigation and discovery, including assisting with custodial interviews, acting as a liaison for witnesses and outside counsel, document collections, review, and coordinating with outside counsel and e-discovery teams for processing and production.
• Work with cross-functional partners to gather, organize, and maintain information and data to support TikToks litigation matters
• Manage document preservation and legal hold processes in collaboration with eDiscovery, Forensics, and IT teams
• Review and process a wide array of legal process, inquiries, and documents
• Systematically collect key metrics and identify trends to support operational improvements
• Work with leadership and finance to prepare metrics and audit reports
• Assist in implementing and optimizing internal processes and creating standard operating procedures for the litigation team
• Provide administrative and operational support on a broad range of legal matters, workflows, systems, and tooling
• Develop and refine litigation playbooks, templates, and internal processes to increase operational efficiency
• Collaborate with and provide support to attorneys, partners, stakeholders, and leadership on cross-functional projects

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of litigation experience at an in-house, tech, or law firm environment
• Bachelors degree or Paralegal Certificate from an ABA-accredited program
• Proficient knowledge of the litigation process, including motion practice, discovery, trial, and appellate procedures, and the ability to administratively manage all phases of litigation
• Technically savvy and comfortable quickly learning and using various tools
• Ability to be flexible in a fast-paced environment, balance competing priorities with a broad set of stakeholders, and manage time-sensitive products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with organizational and time management skills, with keen attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience handling patent/intellectual property or employment matters
• Excellent legal and business judgment, critical thinking, and ability to manage multiple matters simultaneously
• Detail-oriented and willing to provide administrative and operational support
• Ability to think strategically and use good judgment to build scalable processes and escalate matters that require attention
• Excellent interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills, with the ability to build alignment across teams in a diverse, global environment